I think generally a more featured forum would be appreciated by a lot of people. There have been threads which have looked for things like an ignore list. Having said that, One of the things I like about GWJ is that it's fairly plain without integrating features from every website under the sun just because you can. I guess defining what you don't aim to do is as important as what you do aim to do.

I have few sporadic times in the year where I'll travel for 2 weeks and most threads will have 100+ posts in them. That also coincides with not being able to read all 100+ posts, but by clicking on them, all the thread will be marked as read.

Could the read status be limited by page? 100+ posts means at least 4 pages or unread comments; reading the first one, the remaining 3 could still be seen as "new" to said reader.

Please forgive me, some of these are old and I don't mean to harp on them. They're just things I'd like to see.

When you go to a user's "track" tab to see their recent posts, the links there don't link directly to the actual post, just the thread, and a link to new posts. It'd be great if that list would link directly to the person's post.

Google search is serviceable, but it uses google's algorithm and isn't really a straight-up text search. It also returns matches in the "recent posts" box, people's sigs, locations, tags, etc.

Certis: Quintin is both smart and attractive.

Fedaykin98: Good lord, I wouldn't have expected brilliance like that from that nemeslut Quintin Stone!

Yonder: It's weird to say this, but Quintin Stone may be the wisest person here.

When you go to a user's "track" tab to see their recent posts, the links there don't link directly to the actual post, just the thread, and a link to new posts. It'd be great if that list would link directly to the person's post.

One of the things that bothers me most about the "track" tab is that it shows in order of most recent post by anyone. I'd like an option to view in order of most recent post by the user I'm looking at.

I'd also like to see added a sanity check at the time of posting to prevent people from putting too many [ /quote ] tags, and thus breaking the rest of the page.

Good ideas already. I'd say more than anything: search, search, search. Google's search is just so wacky. If nothing else, I'd like to see the search more heavily weight thread titles against individual posts (it may already do this, but if so google isn't scanning it well). I'd love to see some sort of improvement in thematic searching...maybe tagging? Metadata is all the rage. I don't know if that would be impossible to implement.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

A giant Cthulu alien just threw the top of Big Ben at Abraham Lincoln's airship.

I have few sporadic times in the year where I'll travel for 2 weeks and most threads will have 100+ posts in them. That also coincides with not being able to read all 100+ posts, but by clicking on them, all the thread will be marked as read.

Could the read status be limited by page? 100+ posts means at least 4 pages or unread comments; reading the first one, the remaining 3 could still be seen as "new" to said reader.

One of the things I like about GWJ is that it's fairly plain without integrating features from every website under the sun just because you can. I guess defining what you don't aim to do is as important as what you do aim to do.

QFMFT

Also, +1 for a way to 'add (a thread) to favorites' to replace the current Track feature.

I was thinking it'd be pretty cool to have a live chat box along the sidebar. It would make for great impromptu game matches, and quick discussions on recent topics and such. Basically anyone logged in can enter the chat room and have a word with others.

However, this feature wouldn't be as important to me as a fixed search engine, or even this:

Hobbes2099 wrote:

I have few sporadic times in the year where I'll travel for 2 weeks and most threads will have 100+ posts in them. That also coincides with not being able to read all 100+ posts, but by clicking on them, all the thread will be marked as read.

Could the read status be limited by page? 100+ posts means at least 4 pages or unread comments; reading the first one, the remaining 3 could still be seen as "new" to said reader.

Another one that I would find useful: the ability to mark a thread as unread starting from any arbitrary post. Like, a link next to the usual "quote" and "link" links that, when clicked will mark the rest of the thread as unread. I think this might satisfy Hobbes' request as well (per-page "newness")?

Not to harp on the search too much, but it would be nice to be able to exclude signatures from the search.

On the topic of searching, I'd agree with ignore sigs, but also I think it would behoove us to add in some advanced features as well. Date/time restrictions, forums to search, etc. It's long overdue, might as well over-do it

Also, a properly done Mobile Friendly site would be nice. HTML5 all the way, etc (or just something that works, I'm not that picky)

"You're right, I should never argue The IT Crowd with you. You can be Moss, and I'll be Roy." - Bonus_Eruptus | trueheart78.com | GameList: trueheart78

Drupal has a search function baked-in, IIRC. I think most forums that disable the internal search in favor of Google's usually do it for performance reasons. If that's the case for GWJ, do we need to restrict it to only logged in users? Do we maybe just need hosting with more cycles available?

Another one that I would find useful: the ability to mark a thread as unread starting from any arbitrary post. Like, a link next to the usual "quote" and "link" links that, when clicked will mark the rest of the thread as unread. I think this might satisfy Hobbes' request as well (per-page "newness")?

it would indeed; but I'd love a "keep unread after this post".

Also, minor tweak I just thought of after seen a Coffee Grinder post;

many newcomers will ask why their posts "look funny" and it's up to the community to explain about the HTML restrictions.
maybe until the Coffee Grinder has gained the ability to post links, to have a disclaimer or warning;